WOMENS ORDINATION CONFERENCE
2121 Decatur Place NW Suite 8, Washington, DC 20008 www.womensordination.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church.

Educational Outreach-WOC regularly publishes and shares advocacy, activist and educational resources for activists and members to enable local organizing and community building among our grassroots networks.Toolkits, media training and messaging, blog posts, and social media tools are widely dispersed. This year we created a toolkit and video series to help educate members on theology and Church documents. Our newsletter, New Women New Church, is published twice a year. Each issue is distributed to more than 2,500 members, donors, and subscribers. The newsletter contains information relevant to the issue of women's ordination into an inclusive and accountable Catholic Church. It informs readers about resources available to them and regional events across the country in which they can participate and support. We also host regular events to raise awareness, including this year, a gathering between two high-profile theologians to discuss women's rights in the Church and world.

Three Ministries: The projects of WOCs Three Ministries are the central focus of the organization. The Ministry of Irritation works to raise awareness about womens ordination with public advocacy, such as prayerful demonstrations at major Catholics events, letter and petition deliveries, and using the media to amplify our message. This year a major component of this action was a witness in Rome, Italy, during the Vatican's Synod on the Amazonia region, calling for greater leadership roles for women.Additional campaigns included a witness outside of the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, DC; a march from the United Nations to St. Patrick's Cathedral calling for women's human rights; and our Vocations Sunday initiative, where we prepared organizing resources and supported prayerful gatherings online to call for inclusion of women in all ordained ministries. The Ministry of Walking with Women Called continues to build and coordinate the national network of support. Our Feminist Ministers database is regularly updated to provide members with networking opportunities with ministers in their area. We continue to offer a scholarship to support students studying to be ordained ministers at Catholic institutions. Three women were awarded. The Ministry of Prophetic Obedience provides ongoing support at ordinations for women called to serve as priests and bishops. Chalices were sent to several newly ordained women and their stories are featured in our newsletter.

Programs and Coalitions: In collaboration with other Catholic reform organizations, WOC is able to amplify our mission for womens equality through projects, events and partnerships.WOC is a longtime and active member of the forum, Catholic Organizations for Renewal, which brings together a diverse group of organizations and volunteers to educate, share resources, and collaborate on projects when appropriate. This year we hosted abuse survivor and papal advisor, Marie Collins on a 5-city U.S. tour to discuss institutional accountability and justice for those abused in the Church. WOC is also an active member of Women-Church Convergence, supporting their annual meeting and activities, as well as publishing frequent statements on social justice issues with a feminist lens. Lastly, WOC is a founding organization and leader in the international Womens Ordination Worldwide (WOW), a network of 16 countries working for womens ordination. WOW holds annual gatherings and prayerful witnesses, creates prayer and organizing resources, and has an active social media presence.

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